Word: gist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even the churches that still stand unscathed are not crowded. The Church has no practical suggestions for helping Austria out of its earthly mess. "Do not fear," was the gist of the Easter sermon in the Kirche am Hof, "even though another war seems to be brewing. Look toward a life in a better world after death...
Next evening, at a White House gathering for congressional leaders, Secretary Marshall began his job of reporting to the U.S. The gist of it: though the Moscow deadlock was a short-term diplomatic failure, it held the promise of becoming a long-term political success...
Last week a U.S. mission, returned from a checkup of survivors, had a report ready. Its gist: after 18 months, the biological effects of the 1945 Bomb had not disappeared, had not been finally tallied, might still show up in horrible forms years & years from...
...came, there was much pomp and celebration, probably more to the pleasure of the students than of the President, for "an oration in Latin" by an undergraduate was followed immediately by an address in Latin by President Kirkland, and Andrew must have had a time of it following the gist of things...
...careful to state that this is no "treaty" or "contractual obligation." Either nation can stop the collaboration at any time. It is only a "working arrangement," a bilateral declaration of principles intended to clear the air of wild rumors about U.S.-Canadian military intentions in the Arctic. The gist of the agreement is that the two countries will exchange military observers and armed-service personnel; they will make their military, naval and air facilities available to each other; they will try to standardize weapons...